I'm giving catfish the benefit of the doubt and presuming he was joking about the conversion thing, as we're sparring partners of old and my sense of dry humour is well known. Unfortunately, there are all too many people who do think "God" wrote the bible and who don't - or can't - question the legitimacy of what they read.
Answers in Genesis is held up as a trusted source by such people. Morris himself is president of the oxymoronic Institute for Creation Research and son of Henry Morris, the "father of creationism". Thus his own authority on the subject is touted as being beyond question, despite his qualifications being in civil, and geological, engineering. That's about as useful as me, with my NVQ in vehicle maintenance, getting trotted out as an authority for my opinions on medical research.
At the very least catfish, unless the irony was impenetrably thick, doesn't buy the AiG t-shirt.
Answers in Genesis is held up as a trusted source by such people. Morris himself is president of the oxymoronic Institute for Creation Research and son of Henry Morris, the "father of creationism". Thus his own authority on the subject is touted as being beyond question, despite his qualifications being in civil, and geological, engineering. That's about as useful as me, with my NVQ in vehicle maintenance, getting trotted out as an authority for my opinions on medical research.
At the very least catfish, unless the irony was impenetrably thick, doesn't buy the AiG t-shirt.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'